... my apologies; in the interest of precision, I mispoke here: it
doesn't actually *break* installation per-say; it spits out alarming
amounts of 'kill' spam while sleeping for 6 seconds.  I did the sane
thing at this point and mashed Ctrl-C. =)

The rest stands.

-mrt



d...@blackshard.net (Matthew R. Trower) writes:

> I'm sorry to report that with this commit, installCDE.src:CleanDaemons()
> is utterly broken.  It doesn't work at all on any platform, and breaks
> installation on non AIX/freebsd/openbsd/netbsd/linux platforms (eg:
> sun).  On those platforms it tries to kill *all* running processes (!!).
> Fortunately, the pipeline has further problems, and bails with an error.
>
> This code at import was originally very simple.  Somehow over the years
> it got long and crazy.  Attached is a patch which returns it to its
> simple form, this time with a POSIX pipeline that should run correctly
> anywhere (at least any POSIX 2004 platform, BSD, and AIX).
>
>
> -mrt
>
>
>
>
>
> Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> writes:
>
>> Merged to master, thanks!
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in reviewing these - this week was very busy at $JOB.
>>
>> -jon
>>
>> On 08/19/2018 03:02 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
>>> 1st of four incoming patches
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>> -Chase
>>>
>>>
>>>
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